an important obs. If this is as abundant as it appears to be in your photos, you should be able to extract one or two complete specimens without damaging the mostly underground portion of this sporocarp’s mycorrhizae.

I urge you to do so, and send to Lorelei Norvell. If excavation (remember a shovel!) proves I’m wrong in calling this P. phaeogaleroides, you should find the long (to extremely long) pseudostipe present, it may be up to 205 mm long x 2mm thick, (or even more than) 8 inches long! Any excavation should be at the edge of any fruiting you find.